| The First Art Newspaper on the Net |   | Established in 1996 | Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
 |
| | Soldier shoots knife attacker near Louvre in Paris; Museum will reopen on Saturday | |
|
|
People stand outside the Louvre Pyramid of the Louvre museum at night on February 3, 2017, in Paris, after a French soldier patrolling at the Louvre shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding attacker earlier. The man wielded a machete and shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") as he lunged at soldiers patrolling outside the Louvre, home to the Mona Lisa and one of the world's most-visited museums. Security forces described the attacker as being in a serious condition while one soldier suffered a minor head wound. A second machete, along with cans of spray paint were found in the man's backpack. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French investigators believe the man who launched a machete attack outside the Louvre in Paris, before being shot and wounded by a soldier, is a 29-year-old Egyptian who entered the country on a tourist visa. The incident has thrust security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months before elections in France, with authorities saying it was a "terrorist" assault. The attacker, in a black t-shirt bearing a skull design and armed with two 40-centimetre (16-inch) machetes, lunged at four patrolling French soldiers while shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest"), Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told a press conference. One of the troops was struck on the head and another fell to the ground outside the famous Paris museum after the assailant attacked. The second soldier managed to open fire and hit the machete-wielder in the stomach. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A security guard gestures at the entrance of the Louvre museum in Paris, on February 3, 2017, after a French soldier patrolling at the Louvre shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding attacker earlier. The man wielded a machete and shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") as he lunged at soldiers patrolling outside the Louvre, home to the Mona Lisa and one of the world's most-visited museums. Security forces described the attacker as being in a serious condition while one soldier suffered a minor head wound. A second machete, along with cans of spray paint were found in the man's backpack. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
| Hockney touches up tabloid logo ahead of retrospective | | Museum of Modern Art protests Trump travel ban through art | | Dutch city unveils 'largest ever Mondrian painting' | 
A copy of the Sun newspaper, with its masthead modified by British artist David Hockney, is arranged for a photograph in London. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- British artist David Hockney has turned his digital hand to Friday's masthead of The Sun, telling the tabloid of his painting and smoking habits ahead of a retrospective in London. Hockney touched up the logo of Britain's best-selling newspaper by adding black shadowing to its lettering and a white sun, using a painting app on his iPad. "I was delighted to be asked. Once I thought about the idea it didnt take me long. The sun and The Sun -- I love it," he was quoted as telling the newspaper. The 79-year-old's appearance on the front page comes ahead of a retrospective of the artist's work at the Tate Britain gallery in London, which opens on February 9. "When I'm painting I feel 30 but when I stop I feel older. I'm a bit slower than I was but I stand up to paint every day," he told The Sun. Hockney appears to have ... More | | 
This file photo shows Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon from 1907.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A famed New York art museum has joined the throng of protests against President Donald Trump's travel ban by replacing Western art with pieces by Iranian, Iraqi and Sudanese artists. The Museum of Modern Art said works by Sudanese painter Ibrahim el-Salahi, Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid and five artists with Iranian backgrounds replaced seven Western works, including by Picasso and Matisse. The Republican president's explosive executive order came into effect last Friday, closing US borders to refugees for 120 days and visa holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days. Syrian refugees have been banned indefinitely. The museum switched the artworks late Thursday in its fifth-floor galleries, which ordinarily are devoted to Western modernism before 1945. The changes were reported by The New York Times ... More | | 
The Hague's city council decided to honour the world-renowned artist as part of a year of celebrating the theme 'Mondrian to Dutch Design'.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Dutch officials unveiled Friday what they called "the largest Mondrian painting in the world" to celebrate The Netherlands' best-known abstract artist, who helped found an influential art movement a century ago. The replica "painting" made from thin stick-on plastic sheets features Piet Mondrian's famous design of straight black lines and striking red, yellow and blue blocks and has been displayed on the sides of the city hall in The Hague. "The Hague's city council decided to honour the world-renowned artist as part of a year of celebrating the theme 'Mondrian to Dutch Design'," city spokesman Herbert Brinkman told AFP. This year marks the centenary of the founding of the Dutch art movement in 1917 called "De Stijl" (The Style) known for its bold horizontal and vertical lines encasing blocks of primary colours. ... More |
|
| Gift adds more than 1,100 artworks to the Colby College Museum of Art's collection | | Artists use materials recovered from The Glasgow School of Art fire to create works to be auctioned at Christie's | | Exhibition offers rare opportunity in Italy to admire the work of Robert Motherwell | 
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Dr. Gachet: L'Homme à la pipe, 1890. Etching with drypoint in black ink on thin Japanese paper, 15 3/4 x 11 in. (40 x 27.9 cm). Colby College Museum of Art, The Lunder Collection. Photo by Pixel Acuity.
WATERVILLE, ME.- Colby College today announced that it has received another gift of more than $100 million from Peter and Paula Lunder in support of the Colby College Museum of Art. The gift will add nearly 1,150 artworks to the Museums collection and will launch the Lunder Institute for American Art, establishing Colby as the only liberal arts college with a world-class art museum and a global research center on American art. The gift of artworks and endowment of the Institute will make it possible for the Lunder Collection at the Colby Museum to speak to a global audience, to make Waterville, Maine a must-see arts destination, and to offer Colby students opportunities to interact with and analyze a remarkably broad and deep collection. The Lunders generosity has transformed Colby College and ... More | | 
Antony Gormley SITE II, 2016 Charcoal and latex on paper 111 x 76.5cm Estimate: £18,000 - £25,000 © Antony Gormle.
LONDON.- 25 leading international artists, including Simon Starling, Sir Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Saville, David Shrigley and Douglas Gordon have used materials retrieved from The Glasgow School of Arts Mackintosh library after the fire to create original works of art to help raise money for restoration of the Mackintosh Building. Each one of the diverse and distinctive pieces, covering a range of practices including Sculpture, Photography, Drawing and Painting has been created using remains from the fire, from charred timbers and debris to books and furniture. In an auction titled Ash to Art, created by J. Walter Thompson London in collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art Development Trust, the new art works will be displayed at Christies in London King Street in a special exhibition between 3rd and 7th March 2017, then auctioned during the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on ... More | | 
Robert Motherwell, Black Image with Ochre, 1967, acrylic and ink on paper, 77.5 x 55.9 cm. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc/VAGA, New York and DACS, London 2016.
BOLOGNA.- This exhibition on view at Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M. offers the rare opportunity in Italy to admire the work of Robert Motherwell, a cultured and refined artist who gave one of the most original interpretations of the great season of the American Abstract Expressionism. After the preview during Arte Fiera, the exhibition curated by Alessia Calarota officially opens on February 4th with a selection of works that shows the rich cultural heritage left by the artist to the following generations. After the cubist and the surrealist experiences, Motherwell turned to a gestural painting. However, his interest for abstraction and the formal elements don't prevent him from including personal, political and literary issues to «express what happens inside human beings», in a mental and physical union with the paintings themselves. Motherwell's works whether they are oils, prints ... More |
|
| Masterpieces in American landscape painting on display at the Wichita Art Museum | | Do Ho Suh's first exhibition at Victoria Miro on view in London | | MoMA appoints Kate Lewis as Chief Conservator of the David Booth Conservation Center and Department | 
Thomas Cole (1801 1848), Mountain Scenery, ca. 1827. Oil on canvas. The New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart, S-230.
WICHITA, KS.- For the first time at the Wichita Art Museum, 41 landscape paintings of early American art history from the premier collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view in The Poetry of Nature, featuring masterpieces by such notable artists as Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and Albert Bierstadt. The exhibition offers a varied survey of important paintings conceived in the style of the Hudson River School and further enriched by each artists personal vision. In the early to mid-19th century, the expansive landscapes of the Hudson River Valley as well as Catskill and Adirondack Mountains inspired a remarkably talented group of American artists, a circle now known as the Hudson River School. Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand were the leaders of the early movement, encouraging a generation of artists who found life-long inspiration in the contemplation and study of nature. Landscape was not greatly valued as a categ ... More | | 
Do Ho Suh, Passage/s, 2016. Polyester fabric on stainless steel pipes Dimensions variable © Do Ho Suh Courtesy the Artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong and Victoria Miro, London.
LONDON.- Inspired by his peripatetic life, Do Ho Suh has long ruminated on the idea of home as both a physical structure and a lived experience, the boundaries of identity and the connection between the individual and the group across global cultures. Meticulously replicating the architecture of the places in which he has lived and worked, such as his childhood home and Western apartments and studios, Suhs one-to-one scale translucent fabric structures give form to ideas about migration, transience and shifting identities. These ideas are further conveyed in his Hub works, where transitory, connecting spaces between rooms, such as vestibules and corridors, speak metaphorically about movement between cultures and the blurring of public and private, as well as reflecting on the passage of the artists own life, and the experience of a person who has developed roots in multiple countries. I see ... More | | 
Kate Lewis, The Agnes Gund Chief Conservator of The David Booth Conservation Center and Department, The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Photo: Scott Rudd.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Kate Lewis as The Agnes Gund Chief Conservator of the Museums David Booth Conservation Center and Department. In this role, she will provide key professional and intellectual leadership for the Museums well-established conservation program; oversee the departments strategic planning and facilities; assess and apply new technologies for treatment and research; collaborate closely with curatorial and senior staff across the Museum; and manage all aspects of collection care, documentation, and research work. Ms. Lewis succeeds James Coddington, who retired last December. A versatile museum conservator with two decades of experience across conservation specialties including paper, photographs, and time-based media, Ms. Lewis has served as MoMAs Media Conservator since 2013. As Chief Conservator, she will continue to oversee a major initiative funded by the Andrew ... More |
|
| Svenja Deininger "Second Chances First Impressions", is her first solo U.S. museum show | | Columbia Museum of Art acquires four works of art from REMIX exhibition | | The Ringling presents "A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe" | 
Untitled, 2014. Oil on canvas 19 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (50 x 40 cm). Collection Maya and Robert Tichio, Greenwich Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, © Svenja Deininger.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art recently announced that Austrian painter Svenja Deininger was selected as the 2017 Recognition of Art by Women (RAW) artist a living female artist working in painting or sculpture who is honored with a solo exhibition at the Museum. Svenja Deininger Second Chances First Impressions, on view from Feb. 4 through April 16, 2017, is the sixth exhibition in the RAW series. More than 20 examples of Deiningers mature work comprise this exhibition that will be the greatest representation of her efforts and first solo show in a U.S. museum. The artists keen understanding of color, examination of formal elements and conceptual approach to painting will be revealed through works selected by Deininger, who will also collaborate on the installation with Cheryl Brutvan, the Nortons Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Contemporary Art. The exhibition ... More | | 
Willis Bing Davis (born 1937), Ancestral Spirit Dance #568, 2013, Oil pastel on board, 40 x 32 in., Museum purchase.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announces the acquisition of four major works of art previously on view as part of the seminal spring 2016 exhibition REMIX: Themes and Variations in African-American Art. The acquisition consists of powerful pieces from artists Bing Davis, Renée Cox, Michaela Pilar Brown, and Colin Quashie. The latter two artists will discuss their works and creative processes as part of the REMIX/REDUX lecture and reception presented by the Friends of African American Art & Culture (FAAAC) on Thursday, February 16, at 6:00 p.m. Our goal with REMIX was to raise awareness of contemporary African-American art and the mercurial yet magical nature of a remixed methodology, says Will South, CMA chief curator. The acquisition of these phenomenal pieces helps these important and challenging conversations to continue. Among the four newly acquired works is Ancestral ... More | | 
Italy, ca. 1430. Oil and tempera on panel. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., museum purchase (1912.63)
SARASOTA, FLA.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art presents A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe, a major international loan exhibition that brings together more than 100 works including stained glass, precious metals, ivories, tapestries, paintings, prints and illuminated manuscripts. The show has been organized by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, in partnership with The Ringling with objects coming from 25 prestigious public institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. We are thrilled to be partnering with The Walters Art Museum to bring this extraordinary group of objects to our visitors in Sarasota, remarked Steven High, executive director, The Ringling. These works will not only allow guests to engage with art in new ways but give them the ... More |
|
href=' href='
| More News |
 Michigan Artist Series explores the art and history of tribal tattooing GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Grand Rapids Art Museum announced the next installment of its Michigan Artist Series: Black Waves: The Tattoo Art of Leo Zulueta. On view February 5 August 27, 2017, GRAMs latest exhibition explores the work of Ann Arbor-based tattoo artist Leo Zulueta. Black Waves is a visual biography of Zuluetathe man largely credited with the popularization of contemporary tribal tattooing in the United States. The exhibition will present a close look at a range of Zuluetas personal photographs, texts, tattoo-inspired drawings, hand-drawn tattoo flash, and includes a large-scale mural created specifically for GRAMs lobby. By organizing his first solo museum exhibition, the Grand Rapids Art Museum is thrilled to bring the unique artistry of Leo Zulueta to broader audiences both within and beyond the world of tattoo, commented GRAM ... More Carter Burden Gallery in New York presents three new exhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: The Phantom Forest in the east gallery featuring Allen Hansen and Elizabeth Jordan, Interior s in the west gallery featuring Jackie Shatz, and On the Wall featuring Bette Klegon Halby. The exhibition runs from February 2nd through 23rd at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. In The Phantom Forest , Allen Hansen presents recent paintings in his first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. In this body of work, Hansen uses tar as his primary painting medium. The artist first used tar in his youth when he worked on weekends with his father, a roofer, under the sky with the grid of the Los Angeles suburbs below. The large dark abstract canvases overpower the viewer. Hansen's paintings deal with the urge to the sublime, whether in abstracted landscape or diagramming the unknowable. He feels that ... More Exhibition of new works by David Diao opens at Postmasters GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters Gallery announces "HongKong Boyhood," an exhibition of paintings by David Diao, his first show of new works since his comprehensive career retrospective at the Ullens Contemporary Arts Center in Beijing in 2015. Born in 1943 in Chengdu, China, Diao is known for complex weaving of personal history with the history of modernist painting and design. He superimposes images and text on luscious, largely monochromatic surfaces. Diao's paintings visualize data, both private and public, that maps his life's trajectory from mainland China through HongKong to the United States and New York where he has lived since 1964. "HongKong Boyhood" (a tip of the hat to Walter Benjamin's "Berliner Kindheit") is about the five and a half years Diao spent there. Events surrounding the loss of my home in China due to the Communist takeover has festered ... More Ansel Adams photographs and Renaissance paintings on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art opens 2017 with two major exhibitions: one featuring the awe-inspiring work of Ansel Adams, and one showcasing masterpieces from Venices cultural Renaissance. Beginning February 4 the Museum presents Ansel Adams: Masterworks, 48 iconic photographs of American landscapes. One month later the Museum opens Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 14701520, about 50 paintings by such masters as Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, and Vittore Carpaccio, many of which have never been seen outside of Venice. The two exhibitions are ticketed together. These two extraordinary exhibitions allow our visitors to explore the majesty of America and the splendor of Venice all in one location, says Lawrence J. Wheeler, director of the NCMA. It will be an ... More Julia Stoschek Collection exhibits media-based worksBERLIN.- Between 1799 and 1804 a young naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt (17691859), visited the American continent for the first time, making two expeditions. The most adventurous section of his journey was the trip down the Orinoco to the Rio Negro in Venezuela. At the time, his report on this journey laid the foundations for a holistic way of looking at nature one that was way ahead of its time. Von Humboldt was the first researcher to point out how the forces of nature, both animate and inanimate, work together. In 1853, these first chronicles of the New World were published in a special edition entitled Jaguars and electric eels, an excerpt from the Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctical Regions of the New Continent. The largely media-based works in the collection of the same name on show at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin describe a reality ... More Paul Mpagi Sepuya's debut exhibition with Yancey Richardson on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Yancey Richardson is presenting Figures, Grounds and Studies, Paul Mpagi Sepuyaʼs debut exhibition with the gallery. While deeply engaged with ideas about studio portraiture, the exhibition frames the photographic process as an ongoing conversation and negotiation between the viewer, the artist, the subject and the work. Simultaneously, Sepuya investigates the role of desire as a productive and critical force in the medium of photography. Referencing artistic tropes of homoerotic studio photography, Sepuya comments on the medium as a process of constructive desire: the desire to photograph, to look and to touch. Using drapes or framing to partially obscure the sitter, the studio or the camera, he engenders in the viewer a longing to see what is hidden and implicates the viewer in the looking. Sepuya inserts himself into the images, appearing alternately ... More Carl Solway Gallery opens three solo exhibitionsCINCINNATI, OH.- Carl Solway Gallery presents three solo exhibitions by artists who engage in fresh approaches to established traditions in architecture, ceramics and textiles. Working in very different mediums, each artist profoundly interprets observations of the natural world and the culture we live in. All three artists currently reside in Ohio. Catherine Elizabeth Richards is an architect and visual artist. Her work expands the understanding of architecture at different scales; from discrete objects, sculpture and installations to city-wide interventions. Richards works between mediums, exploring architecture and perception with materials, experimental photography and video. Her installation for Carl Solway Gallery, Capricious Alignment, features immersive textile prints and polychrome aluminum sculptures. In her words, Order, decoration, and color create a dynamic ... More Akron Art Museum presents the weird, incongruous and grotesque with Gross Anatomies AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum presents a menagerie of marvelous, fantastical, absurd and grotesque contemporary artworks with the exhibition Gross Anatomies, which opens Saturday, February 4 and remains on view through July 30, 2017. Gross Anatomies showcases prints, paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists whose work features grotesque representations of the human form. Drawn entirely from an Akron-based private collection, the artworks in the exhibition transgress social norms, amuse, titillate and befuddle, and in some cases, gross us out. Associate Curator Theresa Bembnister said, Due to their misfit nature, the images in this exhibition have a subversive power that questions, and sometimes even completely overturns, social conventions. These artists use grotesque themes to address issues of inequity by creating parallel worlds in which the ... More Diverse collections highlight Heritage's February 25-27 Fine & Decorative Art Auction DALLAS, TX.- A wide variety of objects for young and seasoned collectors alike will highlight the Fine & Decorative Art auction February 25-27 in Dallas for Heritage Auctions. Fresh-to-market pieces from renowned collectors as well as work from artists around the world, will be available without reserve. "We are excited to be presenting this wide-ranging auction, including both fine and decorative arts, with opportunities for the beginning and seasoned collector. There is already enthusiastic interest in many of the 1,400 plus lots in this sale," said Karen Rigdon, Director of Silver and Decorative Arts at Heritage Auctions. A beautiful Tiffany Studios table lamp ($8,000-12,000), descended in the family of Major General John Porter Lucas, who led U.S. forces in WWI and WWII, is being made available for the first time. Also featured in the mix is a rare French Empire clock- ... More Artworks made by women's groups go on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern ArtEDINBURGH.- A selection of artworks and texts created by members of four womens groups based in Edinburgh and Glasgow will be unveiled in a new display which opens at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this week. Call & Response: Women in Surrealism, which has been organised in partnership with the Glasgow Womens Library (GWL), will present responses to the work of women artists - such as the famous American photographer Lee Miller and the British artist Eileen Agar - who were at the heart of the Surrealist art movement in the twentieth century, and whose own works from the SNGMA Archive will be displayed alongside that of the womens groups and of contemporary artist Stephanie Mann. In a series of workshops held between August and December 2016, members of the groups Sikh Sanjog, Shakti Womens Aid, Seeing Things and Bonnie Fechters ... More Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam opens exhibition of works by Ed van der ElskenAMSTERDAM.- He was the master of street photography, an inspiration for many generations that followed. Ed was fascinated by young people and now young people are fascinated by Ed. In Paris, he captured young love. He unflinchingly filmed his own decline and death. Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) is one of the twentieth centurys most important Dutch photographers, and with Camera in Love, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the largest overview of his work in 25 years. An exhibition that celebrates his extraordinary vision as photographer, book- and filmmaker, and his experimental presentation formats. In a new, multidisciplinary experience that affirms the relevance of his work. In her essay for the catalogue, Hripsimé Visser, curator of photography at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, writes: Ed van der Elsken: a man so driven to record ... More |
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, American artist Patrick Nagel, died February 04, 1984. Patrick Nagel (November 25, 1945 - February 4, 1984) was an American artist. He created popular illustrations on board, paper, and canvas, most of which emphasize the simple grace of and beauty of the female form, in a distinctive style descended from Art Deco. He is best known for his illustrations for Playboy magazine, and the pop group Duran Duran, for whom he designed the cover of the best selling album Rio.
|
|
|
